3 are injured in Somerset fire

Three people were injured in a fire in a Somerset apartment early Tuesday.

Someone near Colonial Village apartments at 342 Sycamore Street in Somerset heard a woman crying for help just before 3 a.m. and found the woman at a second-story window holding a child, said Battalion Chief Jeff Stringer of the Somerset Fire Department.

Stringer said the woman tossed the child down to a man, who caught the child. Then the woman jumped from the window.

A firefighter and a police officer dragged a man downstairs out of the building, he said. The man had been overcome with smoke on a couch, Stringer said.